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DIGITAL MEDIA: CONTENT AND COMMUNICATION

Minitrack: Information Access and Usability

In an increasingly digital culture, we are seeing the potential for significant shifts in
expectations by users related to increasing scale, increasing mobility, and increasing
use of social networks. This minitrack focuses on enabling people to engage in
meaningful ways with the information and the access modes that define this digital
culture, whether mobile or not. The discussions will centre on emerging digital artifacts,
innovation in access and presentation of information, studies of user behavior, and
appropriate evaluation metrics.
In addition to regular submissions to the minitrack, we are encouraging authors, if
interested, to address, from their own research perspective, large complex data and
web-scale information problems, which emerged last year as a common theme.
Authors are encouraged to bring the lens of their own background and expertise to focus
on big data issues ranging from the analytics of the data itself, whether from social
media or other data sets, to the design and evaluation of effective presentations for
stakeholders. The process is simple; authors send their papers to the most relevant
minitrack and after the refereeing, the minitrack chairs will consult to schedule
presentations in the most appropriate clusters to foster thematic connections.
PAPERS ARE INVITED, BUT NOT LIMITED, TO THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
! Emerging Digital Artifacts: models and studies of content and understanding of
artifacts, including news, documents, video, data, personal, and social network
! Innovative Access and Presentation: prototypes and evaluations, multimodal
presentation models, search and navigation models, prototypes and studies
! Evaluation metrics; measuring usability of system and/or user behavior related
to information access and presentation systems (including large scale
visualization)
! Big Data: issues from the user perspective of access and usability to large data
sets, whether that data be numeric, textual, or from social networks.
Minitrack Leaders
Ray R. Larson (primary contact)
University of California Berkeley
Email ray@ischool.berkeley.edu
Carolyn Watters
Dalhousie University
Email : Carolyn.watters@dal.ca